Kate Vale

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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Melanie Holmes has her hands full when 15-year-old Ken and 13-year-old Anne, react badly to Melanie’s impending divorce from their father. Only four-year-old Jeffrey is his usual sunny self. Further complicating her life is her attraction to Sam Hu...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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Dannilynn Kelly may have been date-raped, but she sets aside how badly her first year at college ended, eager to work at Joel Taylor’s veterinary clinic on Cedar Island. There she meets Ben Edwards, a veterinary extern. His friendship becomes her k...

• Jul-2013
• / Contemporary Romance
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Change is scary, and Suzanna Wallace knows she has to take the plunge after her husband's sudden death. Her grown daughter promises to take care of her, "just like Dad did," without realizing how chilling those words sound to her mother. Small change...

• Jul-2013
• / Contemporary Romance
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At Jane Collins’ five-year high school reunion party in small town Evergreen, Washington, bad boy and law school wanna-be Chet Barton surprises Jane by rescuing her from a would-be rapist. Although she is intrigued by Chet, her guardian Bert doesnâ...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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Talented real estate broker Olivia Brown has a simple goal: find a family to buy her grandfather’s spacious old home and move him into a more manageable place, even though her late father warned her never to represent a relative. Southern charmer B...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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Veterinarian Joel Taylor has been in love with his wife, Angela Wright, a family physician, since they met in college. At a conference, he has a drunken one-night fling with an old girlfriend -- the biggest mistake of his life. Ridden with guilt, he ...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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Life experiences mark a person. The death of Sally Hughes’ mother from breast cancer leaves Sally with a painful emotional scar and the discovery of a lump in her own breast frightens her to her core. A former Marine, Paul James is recovering from ...

• Jul-2013
• / Contemporary Romance
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Single mom Amanda Gardner begins her first academic appointment at private Buckley College in northwest Washington state, eager to begin a new life, pay off her school loans and become established in her career as an English professor. Two men compli...

• Aug-2013
• / General Fiction
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Gillian Griffiths is flummoxed about what to do after she is unexpectedly fired from her job of more than twenty years. While trying to repair her professional life, she steps way out of her comfort zone and signs onto an online dating service. To he...

• Nov-2013
• / Women's Fiction
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A short story just in time for Christmas, what is Anita to do when a woman she meets on her return flight to Seattle insists upon introducing her to her widowed brother. Setting Brian up with Anita ends badly and he calls to apologize. When Anita agr...

• Nov-2013
• / Romantic Suspense
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A plane crash and dangerous hike out of the Idaho mountains cements a friendship between Carrie and Brian that neither can deny. He wants that friendship to blossom with the attraction he feels for her, but she is engaged and feels guilty that she’...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Gretchen Martindale, a former foster child herself, steps up when Laine, 12, and Nettie, 5, need a home after they run away from their foster home to stop the foster dad from molesting Nettie. Gretchen’s heart becomes entwined with the girls and sh...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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Bella Campbell, a frightened pregnant teen, is forced to give up her newborn daughter. Twenty-plus years later, that adopted child gets the surprise of her life when her birth mother, now a librarian in Evergreen, Washington, contacts her. Destiny’...

• May-2015
• / Women's Fiction
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2015 Winner of the 1st prize, Romance genre, in Mystery and Mayhem (Cozy Mysteries) Contest, Chanticleer Book Reviews and Media Decades after the boating accident that Trish Barton believed took the life of her unborn son's father, s...

• Oct-2015
• / Romance
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At sixteen years old, Isabella Campbell is forced to give up her newborn daughter, Destiny. For twenty-one years Bella ponders the fate of her daughter as the annual letters from the adoptive parents cease. She decides to take action, and Destiny get...

• Jan-2016
• / Women's Fiction
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Single father Owen Haskins is worried about his emotionally troubled 7-year-old son, Ian. The brilliant little boy is placed in Faith Russell’s second-grade class after they move to East Shore on Cedar Island. Although Owen is attracted to her, he...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction
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Nicole Vance is a tough, smart businesswoman with a successful real estate brokerage. When a national franchise threatens to snap up her life’s work, Nicole is more than ready to fight them off. If only Realty World’s representative, green-eye...

• Aug-2017
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Alexis McCord’s abusive boyfriend is arrested, she seizes the opportunity to escape with her young son. Now she and 5-year-old Chance are building a life in the tiny, remote beach town of Sandy Reach, Washington. Lexi is even acting on her dre...

• May-2018
• / Women's Fiction
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High school counselor and middle daughter, Debra Lambert discovers a student bleeding from an attempted suicide. She doesn’t know what to think, when her boyfriend and college professor, Sawyer Quinlan, is suspected of having been involved. Lawyer ...

• Jul-2018
• / Women's Fiction
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Chris Lambert and Theodora Jameson have lots in common. He wants to concentrate on building houses and refurbishing furniture, a creative endeavor much like Teddy’s love of carving and stained-glass artwork. They’ve been friends forever, but neve...

• Jan-2019
• / Women's Fiction
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Eden Brinker is eager to rejoin the work force now that her children are in school. Then she learns she’s pregnant. Her mixed feelings about adding another child to their family turn to apprehension when she learns her baby may carry a genetic mark...

• Apr-2019
• / Women's Fiction
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Isabella Campbell, at seventeen, is forced to give up her newborn daughter. Twenty-plus years later, that adopted child gets the surprise of her life when her birth mother, now a librarian in Evergreen, Washington, contacts her. Destiny’s adoptive ...

• Aug-2019
• / Women's Fiction
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Elaine Lambert, youngest daughter of Iona and Nathan Lambert, has always known her own mind and taken the lead with her boyfriends. But after her fiancé dumps her, she no longer trusts her own judgment when it comes to men. She embraces a no-dating ...

• Apr-2020
• / Women's Fiction
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In this final story in the Lamberts of Pacific Knoll series, parents Nathan and Iona Lambert have had a good life together for more than forty years. Only their youngest son, Logan, still lives at home.  But when he and big sister Debra are...

• / Women's Fiction
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